Ganji was killed by suspected Sunni militants in 1990, allegedly for propagating Shia revolutionary ideology through the Cultural Center,[1] though it is also theorised the assassination was revenge for the killing of Sunni militant Haq Nawaz Jhangvi earlier that year.
[2] In March 2001, Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan member Sheikh Haq Nawaz Jhangvi was convicted and hanged by a Pakistani court for the assassination.
For some time, he was responsible for the inspection of the Political Ideology Department in the IRGC Navy and worked in the Ministry of Guidance for a few months.
In 1365, he became the cultural representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Lahore, Pakistan.
He was spending the last days of his mission as a cultural consultant in Pakistan, and on the eve of the farewell ceremony that was organized by Pakistani poets and writers in Lahore, Pakistan on December 28, 1369, he was assassinated by the militant branch of Sipah-e-Sahaba outside the hotel where the farewell ceremony was held.